Thumbnails in 2.9?!

March 9th, 2010 | Posted in Journal | 5 Comments »

Totally worth the update to WP 2.9 for me. I’m think­ing I might just decide to start com­pletely 100% over with the site. I have a new struc­ture I’d like to try out, and actu­ally make use of the tags as well as the cat­e­gories. I may keep some older posts and repost them as time goes by. I don’t think any­body actu­ally reads this thing as it is right now, anyway.

So, in the com­ing weeks/2-months, as I fin­ish this blasted degree and start my real job (yay!), the site will prob­a­bly be pretty bor­ing, because I want to add things one at a time to make sure every­thing is clean and work­ing and look­ing good. So many ideas, so lit­tle time– but May 9th is the free­dom date.

Any­way, here’s the link on how to do thumb­nails in Word­Press 2.9.

Quick Tip: How to Use the New “Post-Thumbnail” Fea­ture in Word­Press 2.9 | Net­tuts+.

Here’s a more in depth arti­cle on it:
New in Word­Press 2.9: Post Thumb­nail Images

Oh Magenta… You troublemaker you…

December 8th, 2009 | Posted in Journal | No Comments »

Not only is Magenta not really a color (see this arti­cle. It explains), but appar­ently it’s owned by T-Mobile. This is a really inter­est­ing, and a lit­tle fright­en­ing arti­cle about big-business start­ing to own rights to some­thing as uni­ver­sal as color.

Color: The Next Lim­ited Resource? Read the rest of this entry »

CS5 Already!?

October 16th, 2009 | Posted in Journal | 3 Comments »

I just got CS4 last year!! AAAHHH!

Here’s a sneak-peak pre­view of what’s com­ing up in CS5… inter­est­ing stuff with paint & warp­ing. It’s a bit corny, but the tech­niques are cool.

(These guys found it first, I’m just pass­ing it on to you.) Pho­to­shop CS5 Sneak Peek Video: Wet Paints & Warp Tool | GoMe­di­aZine.

Enjoy ♥

“Add Link” Bookmarklet for Wordpress

January 16th, 2009 | Posted in Journal | 2 Comments »

I man­aged to find how to put an “Add Link” or “Link This” book­marklet in my browser bar.  It needed a teeny update, so I thought I’d post how I did it, in hopes it might help some­body else. 

The orig­i­nal was in this forum thread by “rileycentral” :  

Word­Press › Sup­port » addlink book­marklet gone?.

All I did was change the width of the popup win­dow to 800px to allow for the new 2.7 admin lay­out.  You’ll need to change the url to your own, then copy and paste the code to your address bar and drag it into your book­marks bar.  That’s what I did in Safari, any­way.  If there’s a bet­ter way– please let me know.

javascript:void(linkmanpopup=window.open('http://urlhere.com/wordpress/wp-admin/link-add.php?action=popup&linkurl='+escape(location.href)+'&name='+escape(document.title),'LinkManager','scrollbars=yes,width=800,height=550,left=15,top=15,status=yes,resizable=yes'));linkmanpopup.focus();window.focus();linkmanpopup.focus();

Goals for Spring Semester 2009 (Jr. Studio)

January 12th, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

Find the Spring 09 Web­Fo­lio Here

Fun with Fonts & Prettiness in my Admin!

November 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Journal | 1 Comment »

I am offi­cially post­ing in Word­Press 2.7 Beta 1, and it is soo very pretty! I mean really– I just logged in and I’m blown away by the redesign and how every­thing is arranged.  So far I’m very impressed.  The media sec­tion is still a lit­tle buggy in Safari, right off the bat, but it is, after all, still a beta ver­sion.  I’m look­ing for­ward to look­ing around the rest of it…

Now, the Fun with Fonts, I was want­ing to add a Typog­ra­phy blog to my list of RSS feeds, and #1 on Google was ilovetypography.com- so I clicked, and I was taken.  Tons and tons of info in the blog, and a super fun font game to play!  I got a 25/34 on my own, then I shared it with the lab and we played as a team and got 30.  Good times in the Mac Lab

So that’s all for today– enjoy!